Stefan Küng

Stefan Küng (born 16 November 1993) is a Swiss cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Tudor Pro Cycling Team . He is also a citizen of Liechtenstein.

Career Küng won the individual pursuit at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, after beating Jack Bobridge in the final. Küng only took the lead in the final . In the 2015 Tour de Romandie, he grabbed the biggest victory of his career at that point in solo fashion. On a cold rainy day, he was part of the early breakaway and dropped his fellow escapees some before the line, resisting to their return while riding toward victory in Fribourg. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.

Küng won his first individual Grand Tour stage at the 2024 Vuelta a España on the final stage of the race, beating out race leader Primož Roglič in the time trial by a comfortable 31 seconds.

Major results Road

2010 7th Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud 8th Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships 2011 National Junior Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race 1st Tour de Berne Juniors Games of the Small States of Europe

3rd Overall Driedaagse van Axel 3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud 1st Stage 6 10th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland 2013 National Under-23 Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race Games of the Small States of Europe

5th Road race 1st Giro del Belvedere 3rd Chrono Champenois 6th Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Championships 9th Tour de Berne 2014 UEC European Under-23 Championships

1st Overall Tour de Normandie 1st Young rider classification 1st Prologue 1st Flèche Ardennaise 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

4th Chrono Champenois 8th Tour de Berne 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad U23 2015 (2 pro wins)

1st Volta Limburg Classic 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne 2016 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Eneco Tour

7th Overall Three Days of De Panne 9th Overall Ster ZLM Toer 2017 (3) National Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race Tour de Romandie 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 2 (ITT) BinckBank Tour 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

3rd Overall Tour of Britain Tour de France Held after Stages 1–2 2018 (3) 1st Time trial, National Championships Tour de Suisse 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 9 (ITT) 1st Stage 2 (ITT) BinckBank Tour 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour de France 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

7th Time trial, UEC European Championships 10th E3 Harelbeke 2019 (5) 1st Time trial, National Championships 1st Tour du Doubs 1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Volta ao Algarve UCI World Championships

10th Time trial 3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska 1st Stage 1b (ITT) 4th Time trial, UEC European Championships 8th Overall BinckBank Tour 9th Binche–Chimay–Binche 2020 (3) 1st Time trial, UEC European Championships National Championships 1st Time trial 1st Road race

3rd Overall BinckBank Tour 5th Gent–Wevelgem 8th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Tour de France Combativity award Stages 10 & 14 2021 (6) 1st Time trial, UEC European Championships 1st Time trial, National Championships 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st Stage 4 (ITT) 1st Chrono des Nations 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour de Suisse 4th Time trial, Olympic Games 5th Time trial, UCI World Championships 5th Overall Benelux Tour 6th Gent–Wevelgem 2022 (3) UCI World Championships 1st Team relay

1st Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 1st Stage 3b (ITT) 1st Chrono des Nations

3rd Paris–Roubaix 3rd E3 Saxo Bank Classic 5th Overall Tour de Suisse 5th Tour of Flanders 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve 7th Tour du Doubs 8th Amstel Gold Race 2023 (2) UCI World Championships 1st Team relay 5th Road race 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour de Suisse 2nd Overall Okolo Slovenska 4th Bretagne Classic 5th Road race, National Championships 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve 1st Stage 5 (ITT) 5th Paris–Roubaix 6th Tour of Flanders 6th E3 Saxo Classic 2024 (3) 1st Time trial, National Championships 1st Chrono des Nations Vuelta a España 1st Stage 21 (ITT) Held after Stage 2

3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen 5th Paris–Roubaix Olympic Games 7th Road race 8th Time trial 8th Time trial, UCI World Championships 9th Overall Volta ao Algarve 2025 UCI World Championships

10th Time trial 3rd Chrono des Nations 6th E3 Saxo Classic 7th Tour of Flanders 8th Time trial, UEC European Championships 9th Dwars door Vlaanderen 2026 (1) 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tour de Pologne

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia DNF 60 — — — — — — DNF — — Tour de France — — 79 53 96 DNF 49 33 54 DNF — Vuelta a España — — — — — — — — — 39 76

Classics results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish IP In progress

Track

2011 1st Madison, UEC European Junior Championships (with Théry Schir) National Junior Championships 1st Omnium 2nd Madison (with Loïc Perizzolo) 2013 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit

1st Individual pursuit, National Championships

2014 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit UCI World Championships

2015

UEC European Championships

National Championships 1st Individual pursuit 1st Points race 1st Madison (with Théry Schir)